As the British Columbia legislative calendar gradually encroaches on the legal end to the NDP mandate, the provincial government contemplates with ever more urgency the pros and cons of calling an election earlier than absolutely necessary because of the fate that almost inevitably awaits governments that postpone reckoning til the end.

However, calling an election early does not appear to offer the NDP enormous hope. As evidenced in the table below, the Liberals would reap an absolute majority of the vote as a well as a number that is more than three times larger than that of the governing NDP.

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